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if you reduce fha's role, it would hurt home buyers in san francisco. the key thing is hurting the rest. look at the premiums that are being charged. if we can maintain that focus, the risk regiment focus that the fha has taken on, there is an argument to say, let's not over correct in a time when there is no support system coming down the pipe. >> you talk about the importance of having good underwriting standards. one of the other criticisms of fha is that it is a government agency that is not as nimble. long-term, if you have 3% down payment, it is one thing to trust that the lenders to use the program will operate according to the guidelines, but does the institution have the bandwidth to change circumstances? even if it were not as severe as 2006, say we go through a period where congress allows downpayment-funded assistance. how able is the fha to set those proper underwriting standards? >> there is no question that the fha any other agency needs to be more organized than what we have today. fhfa it is 80 years old. it has never required taxpayer
if you reduce fha's role, it would hurt home buyers in san francisco. the key thing is hurting the rest. look at the premiums that are being charged. if we can maintain that focus, the risk regiment focus that the fha has taken on, there is an argument to say, let's not over correct in a time when there is no support system coming down the pipe. >> you talk about the importance of having good underwriting standards. one of the other criticisms of fha is that it is a government agency that...
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. >> you live on the other coast, you're in san francisco. that had apiey oakland different feel. what is your view of the social movement? >> they were reactive. and fizzled away. i saw what happened in oakland with occupy. problem is that understood consensus to a fall. it became a degradation of the democratic [inaudible] and it could not come up with a mature way to deal with -- create discourse within their ranks so they could create a coherent set of ideals. to do that you have to concede there is such a thing as hierarchy and it is not necessarily picture " or -- patriarchal. you do not need a formal pecking order but you will get rules and order. burning man despite its size and location and is said to be very well-run. there are norms and laws on the ground. >> that is what we do. >> some of you might have been there. >> we build a temporary city in the desert. it has all the -- it is everything any normal city would provide. it last trade days. -- lasts for eight days. it is kind of radical but radical in both senses of that term. radical conventionally means pushing bou
. >> you live on the other coast, you're in san francisco. that had apiey oakland different feel. what is your view of the social movement? >> they were reactive. and fizzled away. i saw what happened in oakland with occupy. problem is that understood consensus to a fall. it became a degradation of the democratic [inaudible] and it could not come up with a mature way to deal with -- create discourse within their ranks so they could create a coherent set of ideals. to do that you...
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there is now a san francisco edition, a chicago edition -- no, there is a san francisco, bay area, the chicago is still in the works. san francisco, bay area and texas actually. so -- that's not right. i said that wrong. san francisco, chicago and one in texas. they are localizing it and they can localize it in many other places. they could do in atlanta and miami. those of you who read the i.h.. the know sometimes it is localized. so "the times" is trying to survive and there are many ways it might survive. they issue of course extremely optimistic financial reports it will get better and it will get better. around that leads me to my final sentence which is to quote lord north quith who owned the london times and the daily mail. and he said somewhere someone is trying to suppress the real story, the rest is advertising. and what i tried to do in my book was separate the real story from advertising. thank you. [applause] >> we are going to have a q&a and the c-span person is going to walk around with that instead of me and he wants to catch you so don't start talking until he gets the
there is now a san francisco edition, a chicago edition -- no, there is a san francisco, bay area, the chicago is still in the works. san francisco, bay area and texas actually. so -- that's not right. i said that wrong. san francisco, chicago and one in texas. they are localizing it and they can localize it in many other places. they could do in atlanta and miami. those of you who read the i.h.. the know sometimes it is localized. so "the times" is trying to survive and there are...
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with great respect to my dear friend, the gentlewoman from san francisco, and the minority leader, i'm delighted that she came down to engage us on this very important issue. the gentlewoman does recognize and know that the house on august 1, in fact, did exactly what she has suggested that they, and that is to take action on what the future tax rates would be in this country. and on a bipartisan basis, 256 -171, this house of representatives said, let's understand that now is a bad time to raise taxes on the american people. and let's extend for a period of time all the tax cuts which allow america to keep working. we passed it 256-171. mr. speaker, i'd like to ask unanimous consent that i insert into the record a chart that exists on the house budget committee that shows the choice of the futures, and what future was presented, if i could -- thank you very much. this slide that i've got that's on the house budget committeele is essentially about the current pathway the president would choose as outlined in his budget that the gentlewoman, ms. pelosi, spoke of that got no votes in the
with great respect to my dear friend, the gentlewoman from san francisco, and the minority leader, i'm delighted that she came down to engage us on this very important issue. the gentlewoman does recognize and know that the house on august 1, in fact, did exactly what she has suggested that they, and that is to take action on what the future tax rates would be in this country. and on a bipartisan basis, 256 -171, this house of representatives said, let's understand that now is a bad time to...
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and that's a threshold that many in the past have supported, nancy pelosi from san francisco, senator charles schumer. people from wealthier districts and states tend to see middle classes differently than those from other areas where cost of living is lower. >> part of speaker boehner's strategy knowing he has built-in support from senators and others? >> i wouldn't call it built-in support but causes a possible split among the democrats, but it is an interesting tactic. the thing is how many republicans can boehner get on board. we covered the caulk us conference -- caucus conference meeting this morning and members are dazed and confused. women are looking for details. some hard-core conservatives rejecting it. they are calling an emergency meeting at 5:00 p.m. to discuss the whip operation. if it fails, democrats, it could be an interesting scenario for speaker boehner and something he is trying to avoid. >> assuming it passes the 5:00 p.m. meeting, what's ahead? it could likely become a bill? >> three-day rule in the house, under the interpretation that they have been using, they
and that's a threshold that many in the past have supported, nancy pelosi from san francisco, senator charles schumer. people from wealthier districts and states tend to see middle classes differently than those from other areas where cost of living is lower. >> part of speaker boehner's strategy knowing he has built-in support from senators and others? >> i wouldn't call it built-in support but causes a possible split among the democrats, but it is an interesting tactic. the thing...
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we had that in common, representing boston and san francisco, two cities with a high cost of housing and knowing that we had to meet the needs of people who could not afford that high cost. and so that respect for people's need to have the dignity of a home no matter what their economic situation was was again his commitment, as others have mentioned, to those at the lower scale -- lower place on the economic scale. so housing, affordability of it, the stock of it, the housing opportunities for people with h.i.v. and aids, all of those kinds of issues. as you can imagine, he had the full view of it all and a way to get the job done. a discrimination, everybody has talked about it this evening, but it's a very transforming thing, transformative thing to see barney frank talk about discrimination, how it affected him, could have affected him in his life. and how he didn't want that risk to be taken by other young people who might have had some questions about their sexual assault and the rest. i remember when we were doing the bill on the hate crimes bill, fully inclusive hate crime bi
we had that in common, representing boston and san francisco, two cities with a high cost of housing and knowing that we had to meet the needs of people who could not afford that high cost. and so that respect for people's need to have the dignity of a home no matter what their economic situation was was again his commitment, as others have mentioned, to those at the lower scale -- lower place on the economic scale. so housing, affordability of it, the stock of it, the housing opportunities for...
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most especially in the sonoma coast of san francisco bay and hopefully the president will follow her lead and designate further protections of our ocean and marine habitat in that area of our precious coast. i am very grateful for the members for the work they have done for america's middle class and the struggles -- those who struggle to join our middle class. the work they have done on behalf of their constituents and on behalf of the citizens of this country. they all came here to achieve accomplishments, to achieve success on behalf of their constituents, on behalf of this country, and they've succeeded. and i want to thank them so very much for their service, for their sacrifice, for the ingenuity, their innovation and i would say with these three for their spirited, tough, harsh, relentless pursuit of what they believed in terms of public policy and on my own behalf, i want to thank -- on behalf of our delegation and tens of millions of constituents that we represent in california, i want to thank representative baca, berman, filner, richardson, stark, woolsey for their service
most especially in the sonoma coast of san francisco bay and hopefully the president will follow her lead and designate further protections of our ocean and marine habitat in that area of our precious coast. i am very grateful for the members for the work they have done for america's middle class and the struggles -- those who struggle to join our middle class. the work they have done on behalf of their constituents and on behalf of the citizens of this country. they all came here to achieve...